First half of a class by Allen Ginsberg on William Carlos Williams and prosody. Included are discussions on Williams's poems: "Thursday," "To Elsie," "Horned Purple," and "The Term." This class also covers the importance of Williams to Robert Creeley and Williams's translations from Chinese. (Continues on 76p051, currently not available.)


This audio is part of the collection: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
It also belongs to collection: Audio Books & Poetry

Artist/Composer: Ginsberg, Allen
Date: 1976-06-28 00:00:00
Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Keywords: New American Poetry; Black Mountain School; beat movement; Buddhism; consciousness and literature; objectivism

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Reviewer: Blank - - December 24, 2004
Subject: No Ideas But In Things
Excellent class on WCW. Allen's insights into each poem is sharp and concise.

HUM!
:20: No Ideas but in things. Reads WCW's "Smell"
- familiarity with self=acceptance a la Whitman
- "Dance Russe"
4:29: Haikus: January Morning: a Suite
8:50: Thursday- giving up and social compassion
10:30: To Elsie
17:25: Horned Purple
19:30: Between Walls
26:20:Cezanne
33:12:A Sort of Song
to be continued